Hampshire & IOW Police & Crime Commissioner Hustings - with questions submitted by our listeners. Richard Murphy - Liberal Democrats. Tony Sunday - Labour. Steve James-Bailey Hampshire Independents.
Ian & Simon present the first of their five virtual hustings for May's elections. Guests today are Paulsgrove candidates George Madgwick - Independent. George Brown - Liberal Democrat & Dr Mark Farwell - Labour & a submitted written statement from Tony Hewitt - Conservatives.
This episode of the podcast combine live broadcasts from Sunday 28th and Tuesday 30th March to cover the subjects frustrated by technical issues on the regular Sunday broadcast. The boys take another swing at whether councils should be allowed to continue to meet virtually and another jab at the EU / UK vaccine spat - including recorded interviews with Cllrs Gerald Vernon-Jackson & Terry Norton with live interview with Kimberly Barrett about planning submissions for St James where the develo...
Join us as we have a look how the votes went on the motions we'd covered last week when they came before Full Council on Tuesday 16th March. We'll also have a look at the government's attempt to make protestors 'shut up and go away'.
In a change to their planned show Simon & Ian review three of the notices of motion due to be discussed on Tuesday's Full Council meeting - Support the Climate and Environmental Emergency Bill, Thank our government for the vaccine rollout & Right to food.
Ian & Simon take a look inside Rishi Sunak's red box - and give their view on this week's budget. Was it a thumbs up from Ian & Simon? Did the Chancelor of the Exchequer go too far, or not far enough?
Ian and Simon welcome back Reverend Amy Webb to the show to udpdate us on Cosham Larder - which opened its doors this week. They also have a look at the government's road map to release the country from the Covid restrictions. Find out more about Cosham Larder here: https://coshamlarder.wildapricot.org
Ian & Simon get into Facebook publicly unfriending the Australian government over their new media law, asking if Portsmouth council meetings need the Jackie Weaver treatment and if the MOD recognising it needs to correct stripping service personnel of medals when they were discharged for being LGBT.
Ian & Simon invite back Jerry 'The Inquisitor' Brown to give the Inquisitor's verdict on the miraculously short Full Council Budget meeting of February 9th. He also talks to us about councils investing money with a history of poor results in a desperate attempt to fund services on the back of a decade of Central Government cuts to local council funding.
Ian and Simon muse on the impending Portsmouth Council Budget meeting February 9th as well the whispers of govermnent preparations for the May 6th Local & Police & Crime Commissioner Elections before touching on Ian's facebook exchange with Billy Bragg and his fans. The Larry & Paul video we loved can be found with all their stuff on Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/larryandpaul
This week we welcome Peter Hopkinson from Island City Living & About My Area to talk about taking over the digital community presence in a time of unprecedented crisis.
Ian & Simon ask if President Biden's 30 executive powers in his first two days in office bode well for US politics and the future of the country, they also revisit the upcoming May local elections, can they be safe, and fair, and free if candidates can't campaign?
Ian and Simon explore whether they think the May 6th local and Police & Crime Commissioner elections should go ahead or be delayed again - to the agonised screams of exhausted political campaigners across the UK. They also ask if delivering political leaflets during a pandemic is sensible.
**LANGUAGE WARNING** There is a swear word in this podcast. In their first show of 2021, Ian and Simon return to discuss if project fear arrived at the border when the UK leaft the transition period at 11pm 31st December 2020; If Gavin Williamson has done his homework or should 'shut up and go away'; If Donald Trump's toddler tantrums about the Presidential Election are inciting riot and putting American Democracy at risk.
Ian and Simon, in their last show of 2020 give a roundup of the over ten-hour full council meeting that took place December 8th. The irony of agreeing and disagreeing while taking a long while to do so reporting on a meeting in which much agreement and disagreement spread over 611 minutes is not lost on us. https://www.facebook.com/pompeypoliticspodcast https://twitter.com/pompeypolitics1
Ian and Simon welcome back Viola Langley & Paula Savage from 'Let's Stop Aquind' to update us on how their campaign is going, ahead of the Planning Inspectorate Open Meetings next week. Let's Stop Aquind on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/939949843156027
Ian & Simon welcome onto the show, Reverend Amy Webb to tell us about Cosham Larder - a community-based initiative that requires no assessment or referral to help local residents shop for food at reduced prices. Ian & Simon then move on to talk about Portsmouth's first few days in Tier Two.
Ian & Simon squeeze a sequel out of November 10th's Full Council meeting - Nine and a half hours. In part II the boys have a look at the Labour party motion calling on the council to stop fining homeless people and the Conservative party motion calling on the council to sort out the backlog in the planning department.
In a fit of excitement, Ian & Simon share their musings on Tuesday's (November 10th) Full Council Meeting at which, amongst others; Portsmouth City Council reporting it needs help from central government to provide the right level of care to unaccompanied minors seeking asylum at the Port. Next hot topic - UBI - why spend over an hour discussing something that's 'never going to happen'. The third issue was a rather unharmonious debate on a subject the whole council agrees on - the Aquind int...
Inspired by the bunfight in the US about voting mechanisms, and the unverified shouting - we look at methods of voting this side of the Atlantic; Is proportional representation a great idea for better, reflective, representative democracies, or a recipe for chaos that wedges the door open for extremism? Is Voter ID a solution without a problem that risks disenfranchising voters who can't afford or don't need photo ID, or a way to keep our electoral process secure? With it being the 21st centiury...
Ian and Simon, in a changed to their advertised programme opine about the US General Election, The ECHR's investigation into the Labour Party, and Lockdown 2.0. Too little, too late? Has the government lost control of its message and the virus?
Join 'Let's Stop Aquind' on Facebook for all the latest in their campaign. Ian and Simon incurring the wrath of the internet gods once more, but struggle on with two excellent and patient guests. Viola Langley & Paula Savage from 'Let's Stop Aquind' talk to us about the struggle to fight against the imposition of an electricity interconnector that plans to cut a swathe through the second-most densely populated city in the UK. Join them on FB https://www.facebook.com/groups/939949843156027 Da...
A day late, and fighting technical issues and human error, Ian and Simon review the goals, own or otherwise from last week's Full Council Meeting. Should the council be investing £120m into a new housing development, should the council be in the business of changing road classifications, should the council do something about landlord licensing, and is the sunflower scheme a good idea?
Please give us a follow on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pompeypoliticspodcast on Twitter @pompeypolitics1 Ian & Simon welcome first-time guest Cllr Darren Sanders - Cabinet Member for Housing & Preventing Homelessness on Portsmouth City Council. The boys ask Darren about the council decision to vacate and redevelop Leamington House and Horatia House in the city - displacing 272 families, about why PCC isn't building more council homes, why it would be that the council sold 8 council...
Ian & Simon are joined by David Simpson to talk about the concept of participatory budgets - how do they work? What sorts of things are fund covered by them spent on? What benefits do they bring to communities in the municipalities they're used?
We welcome back to the show Jerry 'Inquisitor' Brown to talk us through his detailed research (let's face it we couldn't do that) into PCC's investment in Hampshire Community Bank - except it's not a bank. Simon talks about the 'UK in Europe' Motion at the digital Lib Dem conference while wrestling with technical problems only resolved with the highly complex solution of turning unplugging the mixing desk from the computer and plugging it back in again.
Ian & Simon welcome entrepreneur Becky Lodge - founder of Startup Disruptors and Little Kanga http://www.littlekanga.co.uk/ to talk about starting your own business and innovation. Becky's book, Don't Build Rollerskates for Birds https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Build-Rollerskates-Birds-start-up/dp/1527214664
Ian & Simon invite community campaigner Kimberly Barrett to the podcast to talk about building a community online, keeping the peace on Keep Milton Green.
Ian & Simon welcome back Councillor Cal Corkery and invite landlord Rik Rutter to discuss the rental market and the how the government's extension of a moratorium on evictions is affecting people.
Ian & Simon return from their summer break to invite Cllrs Suzy Horton (Cabinet Member for Children, Families & Education on Portsmouth City Council) & Terry Norton to ask them what their views are about the handling of the exams crisis by Gavin Williamson, and what it means for education and the students that have been put through the mill over the last two weeks.
